Jazz Fictions

In the prologue to
Invisible Man
, Ralph Ellison famously defines invisibility as a state of being “never quite on the beat.” Ellison frames the novel as a kind of translation of the invisible rhythm the narrator hears in the music of Louis Armstrong, a syncopated rhythm rooted in Black aesthetic and cultural forms. “Could this compulsion to put invisibility down in black and white be thus an urge to make music of invisibility?” James Baldwin shared Ellison’s compulsion: “I think I really helplessly model myself on jazz musicians and try to write the way they sound.” This intensive seminar considers how African American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present engaged with the jazz tradition to make music of invisibility. How does fiction address the political issues and aesthetic challenges raised by jazz and jazz musicians? How do writers translate the invisible rhythms of jazz into jazz fiction? Novelists include Rudolph Fisher, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Aidan S Levy
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

VOTING AND AMERICAN POLITICS

Elections and public opinion; history of U.S. electoral politics; the problem of voter participation; partisanship and voting; accounting for voting decisions; explaining and forecasting election outcomes; elections and divided government; money and elections; electoral politics and representative democracy.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Erikson
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 59 Info
• 3 points

EXOPHONIC WOMEN

Language is the writer’s instrument; what happens when there is more than one language to choose from, or when a dominant or initial language is replaced by another? What inspires, or necessitates, a writer to practice exophony: to migrate into “foreign” linguistic territory? And in the case of bilingual or plurilingual writers, what factors determine the language(s) chosen for creative expression, and what might cause that choice to shift over time? To what degree do exophonic writers create a third, hybrid language? And how might their works underscore the mutability and instability of language itself? This seminar will focus on a series of women who, either for political or personal reasons, have reshaped and revised their linguistic points of reference, radically questioning—and perhaps willfully subverting—notions of nationality, identity, linguistic normativity, and a “mother tongue”. Special attention will be paid to the reception of exophonic writers, to feminist narratives of separation and self-fashioning, to mother-daughter dyads, to cases of self-translation, to colonialist and post-colonialist frameworks, and to how the phenomenon of exophony further complicates, but also enriches, the translator’s task. Readings will combine literary texts with essays, interviews, and theoretical writings by and about exophonic writers. In addition to analytical papers, students will have the opportunity to experiment writing in another language and translating themselves into English. All readings will be in English; advanced reading knowledge of a foreign language is recommended but not required.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jhumpa Lahiri
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Ukraine and Empire

Ukraine and Russia have been profoundly marked by the imperial experience, which has involved state expansion, cultural appropriation and assimilation. For three centuries leading cultural and political figures in Russia expressed attitudes toward Ukraine that today contribute to a “colonizing” mentality. This course looks at classic expressions of the imperial attitude, how it was challenged in Ukraine, and how it has resurfaced in the present war. Readings from historians are supplemented with source materials from creative literature, art, film, political propaganda and journalism.

• Department: History
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Myroslav Shkandrij
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• 4 points

Biochemistry

Prerequisites: 1 year of Introductory Biology, 1 year General Chemistry, and 1st semester Organic Chemistry.  Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes within organisms that give rise to the immense complexity of life. This complexity emerges from a highly regulated and coordinated flow of chemical energy from one biomolecule to another. This course serves to familiarize students with the spectrum of biomolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) as well as the fundamental chemical processes (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, fatty acid metabolism, etc.) that allow life to happen. The course will end with a discussion of diseases that have biochemical etiologies. In particular, this course will employ active learning techniques and critical thinking problem-solving to engage students in answering the question: how is the complexity of life possible? NOTE: While only the 1st semester of Organic Chemistry is listed as a pre-requisite, it is highly recommended that you take all of Organic Chemistry beforehand.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Danny N Ho
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED CATALAN

Advcd Catalan through Con

An examination of the political, cultural, and artistic history in Modern and Contemporary Catalonia and its role in the building of its sociolinguistic identity. Material includes literary, academic, and media readings and audiovisual and online resources.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elsa Ubeda
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

WORKSHOP SUSTAINABLE DEVEL

Students address real-world issues in sustainable development by working in groups for an external client agency. Instruction in communication, collaboration, and management; meetings with and presentations to clients and academic community. Projects vary from year to year. Readings in the course are project-specific and are identified by the student research teams.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Logan Brenner
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

ADVANCED LANG THROUGH CONTENT

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Juan Pablo Cominguez
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

NUEVA YORK

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Guadalupe Ruiz-Fajardo
  CULPA: 13 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

SALSA: AFRO-LATIN CUL STORIES

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Juan P Jimenez-Caicedo
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

LGBT IDENTITIES IN SPAIN

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Francisco Rosales-Varo
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elga Castro
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• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

HISPANICS & MIGRATION

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Maria E Lozano
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor given at first class meeting. Students will create and workshop plays, with a focus on learning new approaches to language and structure. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Bragen
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• 3 points

ADVANCED POETRY WORKSHOP

This poetry workshop is reserved for accomplished poetry writers and maintains the highest level of creative and critical expectations. Students will be encouraged to develop their strengths and to cultivate a distinctive poetic vision and voice but must also demonstrate a willingness to broaden their range and experiment with new forms and notions of the poem. A portfolio of poetry will be written and revised with the critical input of the instructor and the workshop. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
 for information about registration procedures.

• Department: Writing
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Luan
  Info
• 3 points

THERMODYNAMICS

Classical thermodynamics. Basic properties and concepts, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, equation of state, work, heat, the first and second laws for flow and nonflow processes, energy equations, entropy, and irreversibility. Introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

THERMODYNAMICS

THERMO RECITATION

Classical thermodynamics. Basic properties and concepts, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, equation of state, work, heat, the first and second laws for flow and nonflow processes, energy equations, entropy, and irreversibility. Introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• 0 points

ADVANCED SWAHILI I

Prerequisites: SWHL UN2101-UN2102 or the instructor's permission. An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdul Nanji
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested. Examination of factors in gender identity that are both universal (across time, culture, setting) and specific to a social context. Social construction of gender roles in different settings, including family, work, and politics. Attention to the role of social policies in reinforcing norms or facilitating change.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Gillian Gualtieri
  Info
• 3 points

IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-JUNIOR

A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Adrian Brugger
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Marco Giometto
  h-index: 9 Info
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Addis Kidane
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• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
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• Instructor: Markus Schlaepfer
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• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• 1-3 points

TOPICS IN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Selected topics in molecular genetics and gene regulation, with a focus on examples from human evolution, physiology, and disease. The course will be organized into four modules with combined lecture and journal club-style discussion. Module topics include molecular regulation of transcription, epigenetic regulation of the genome, gene regulatory networks, and genome architecture and evolution. We will draw from examples in the current literature and explore current experimental approaches in molecular genetics of humans and model organisms.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SENIOR

A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Adrian Brugger
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Marco Giometto
  h-index: 9 Info
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Addis Kidane
  Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
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• Instructor: Markus Schlaepfer
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• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• 1-3 points

PROJECT LAB IN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, and BIOL BC2100 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 16. Laboratory course in which students conduct original research projects in molecular genetics. Students will participate in experimental design, conduct and data analysis, and work with key techniques for studying gene structure, expression and function such as nucleic acid extraction and synthesis, cloning, bioinformatics analysis, PCR and qPCR. Students will present their results orally and in writing. Enrollment in both semesters (BIOL BC3305 and BIOL BC3306) of this full-year course is required, and fulfills two upper-level lab courses for the Barnard Biology major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall. -B. Morton - J. Mansfield

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRO TO URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES

INTRO/URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES

What is ethnography and what makes ethnography “urban”? This course explores how social scientists use ethnography to analyze questions and dilemmas often associated with urban settings. We will combine close readings of ethnographies with field-based inquiry, including our own studies of urban public space. Through both our readings and our field exercises, we will focus on the methods at the heart of ethnography: observation and participant-observation.

As we read other scholars’ work, we will ask how the author uses ethnographic tools to explore issues that are suitable for intensive fieldwork. We will assess which kinds of research problems and theoretical perspectives are a good fit with ethnography and the roles that ethnography can play in transdisciplinary research projects. You will apply what you have learned about research to design your own pilot fieldwork. The ethnographies that we read together will examine intersections of housing, race, and class in urban communities. You are welcome to extend this focus to your own fieldwork, but it’s not required to do so. This is a writing-intensive course, and we will devote a considerable portion of class time to workshop your individual projects.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS I

Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS

RACE. SPACE URB SCHOOLS

Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions. We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools. This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Amelia S Herbert
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• 3 points

LABORATORY IN CELL BIOLOGY

Introduction to cell biological techniques used to investigate structural, molecular, and physiological aspects of eukaryotic cells and their organization into tissues. Techniques include light and electron microscopy, cell culture, isolation of cellular organelles, protein electrophoresis, and Western Blot analysis.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rishita Shah
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• 3 points

FEMINIST THEORY

This course explores the formation of desire, sexuality, and subjectivity through the frameworks of feminist epistemologies (the question of what we can know) and feminist ethics (the question of how to be responsible within our relationships and local and global communities). We will reflect on the tension between the limits of what we can know about ourselves and others and the imperative to care for each other and remain accountable for our individual and collective actions and inaction. We will investigate how our deepest emotions, intimate encounters, and secret fantasies are formed by larger social and political contexts. In turn, we will also question how these intimate relationships with ourselves and our companions may be seen as feminist acts of resistance, disruption, and creation.

Objective I: to closely engage diverse feminist perspectives in late-twentieth- and twenty-firstcentury phenomenology, existentialism, Marxism, queer theory, critical race theory, and psychoanalysis.

Objective II: to begin to locate your own feminist perspective within the intersection of your unique experiences and the larger historical and social contexts that form you and which you may seek to transform.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa Solomon
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• 4 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

SP TPC: CARTOGRAPHIES EEJ

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description: 
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrea Johnson
  Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

SP TPC: PHENOMENAL INSTRM

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description: 
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark A Bearak
  Info
• 3 points

QURAN

This course conceives of the Qur’ān as a living text in constant flux through interactions with other religious traditions.  It focuses on developing an understanding of the Qur’ān’s form, style, and content through a  close reading of comparable religious texts.  Major topics covered include the Qur’ānic theory of prophecy, its treatment of the Biblical tradition (both that of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament), and its perspective on pre-Islamic pagan religion.  The central goals of the course include the ability to (a) analyze primary religious sources in a critical and objective manner and (b) construct coherent arguments based on concrete evidence.   In a class of this nature, class members will naturally hold or develop a wide variety of opinions about the topics covered.  The goal is not to adopt a single opinion concerning the interpretation of a particular text, but rather to support personal conclusions in a clear logical manner.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

EAR-TRAINING III

Sight-singing techniques of modulating diatonic melodies in simple, compound, or irregular meters that involve complex rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is placed on four-part harmonic dictation of modulating phrases.

• Department: Music
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 1 points

EAR-TRAINING IV

Techniques of musicianship at the intermediate level, stressing the importance of musical nuances in sight-singing. Emphasis is placed on chromatically inflected four-part harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 1 points

TRAUMA & ITS AFTERMATH: POETIC FORM(S) O

“After a great pain, a formal feeling comes —" 

—Emily Dickinson 

The history of literature has, in many ways, become inseparable from the history of trauma. Poetry can be an excavation site of memory and the subconscious dreamscape, and inevitably, trauma is what is unearthed there. Poems working with, through, and out of personal and collective trauma can create what Dorothea Lasky calls “the material imagination;” a shared world inhabited by both poet and reader long after the poem has been read—a physical space we are in together that helps us move through, process, and in the best of cases, rewrite trauma into the generative and healing space of metaphor and imagery. In this way, poems are—in both their content and their form (which are often are indivisible)—an invitation to the reader to access the depths and complexities of the human psyche that we are all connected by, perhaps in a way they might not have before. The poem creates a finite terrain that anchors infinite possibility. This class will study texts that stem from, speak to, document and process historical, ecological, collective and personal trauma. How can a poem hold, house, and reconfigure traumatic events for both reader and poet through its formal and thematic architecture?

• Department: Writing
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Samantha Zighelboim
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• 3 points

THE ARCHITECT'S LIBRARY-LABORATORY

This seminar challenges the interpretation of architects libraries as static repositories of information, and it shows how they were in fact sorts of laboratories, in which architects experimented in both the creation of knowledge and the production of designs.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Eleonora Pistis
  Info
• 4 points

Regulation of Behaviors for Survival

Reg of Survival Behaviors

To maximize their survival animals must regulate their behavior in response to external environmental cues and their own internal state. A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to understand how neural circuits in the brain function to influence behavior. The aim of this course is to highlight the neural basis of neuropeptide regulation of innate behaviors that are critical for survival and discuss modern approaches to study the neuronal control of classically studied aspects of behavior. We will explore motor control (escape responses), sensory systems (vision, taste, and olfaction), and survival behaviors (feeding, drinking, mating, and aggression). Focus will be on recent and current research, the diversity of approaches for studying it, and how this knowledge can be applied to solve scientific questions. Students will read primary scientific literature and a significant portion of the course will be presentation and discussion-based.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura Duvall
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• 4 points

MICROBIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, and BIOL BC2100. Survey of the diversity, cellular organization, physiology, and genetics of the major microbial groups. Also includes aspects of applied microbiology and biotechnology, the function of microorganisms in the environment, and the role of microbes in human diseases.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Stephen L Sturley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA

A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.

• Department: Music
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Ferguson
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• Instructor: Noah D Rosen
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• Instructor: George H Murer
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• Instructor: Hicham Chami
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INFRASTRUCTURES

Infrastructures are the built networks moving goods, commodities, people, energy, waste organizing human action in modern societies. This course critically examines the work of infrastructures globally. It examines issues of urbanism, racial infrastructures, infrastructural breakdown and emergency, postcolonial infrastructures, climate change, and extraction.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

MUSIC THEORY III

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.  A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.  Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY IV

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms.  A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.  Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheng W Lim
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• 3 points

COLL:PLTCS OF BAD BEHAVIOR

This course explores the politics of what happens when people, institutions, or states deviate from expected behavior. The course will span all subfields of political science, engaging issues such as lies, scandal, money laundering, corruption, campaign finance, election fraud, racism, and incarceration.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROPE

The development of the modern culture of consumption, with particular attention to the formation of the woman consumer. Topics include commerce and the urban landscape, changing attitudes toward shopping and spending, feminine fashion and conspicuous consumption, and the birth of advertising. Examination of novels, fashion magazines, and advertising images.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 4 points

INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC2001) General Chemistry I with lab. Corequisites: CHEM BC3230 Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• R 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2.5 points

MODERN V

This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Francesca Dominguez
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• Instructor: Tamisha Guy
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• 0-1 points

A FIRST CRSE/FINITE ELEMENTS

Focus on formulation and application of the finite element to engineering problems such as stress analysis, heat transfer, fluid flow, and electromagnetics. Topics include finite ele?ment formulation for one-dimensional problems, such as trusses, electrical and hydraulic systems; scalar field problems in two dimensions, such as heat transfer; and vector field problems, such as elasticity and finally usage of the commercial finite element program. Students taking ENME E3332 cannot take ENME E4332.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

VVEDENIE V RUSSKUIU LITERATURU

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

MODERN TECH-ORGANIC CHEM LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3328) or (CHEM BC3230) CHEM BC3328 with a grade of C- or better and CHEM BC3230. Corequisites: CHEM BC3231,CHEM BC3334 Advanced experimental organic techniques and introduction to qualitative and quantitative organic analysis. Emphasis on instrumental and chromatographic methods. Selected reactions. Students enrolling in this course must register for CHEM BC3334x.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Archaeology of Crisis: The Collapse of t

ARCHAEOLOGY OF CRISIS

In this lecture, we’ll examine the “globalized” palace network that spanned the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age, paying especially close attention to the Mycenaean culture zone. We’ll think about the turmoil that resulted in the destruction or abandonment of all known palaces in the Eastern Mediterranean, follow the trail of some of the armed refugees that both fled from and caused yet more turmoil, and end up in Philistia, the new homeland of a subset of these migrants. In this region, now constituting of the Gaza Strip and Southern Israel, we’ll witness competition, conflict, and cooperation in an ancient setting, as these newcomers selectively intermarried with locals, negotiated cultural and political boundaries, shifted alliances, created a political confederation, and eventually faded from view. Through readings, discussions, and short informal presentations, we’ll explore the methodologies by which archaeologists seek to gain a nuanced understanding of the past. We’ll also be closely attuned to how present challenges and crises spark new historical paradigms.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

EAST/WEST FRAMETALE NARRATIVES

A study of frame tale collections from India, Persia, the Middle East, and Western Europe from the 5th century C.E. through the 17th century. We will trace the development of short story/novella from their oral traditions and written reworkings, studying such texts as 1001 Nights, Kalila wa-Dimnah, Scholar’s Guide, and the works of Boccaccio, Marguerite de Navarre, Cervantes, and María de Zayas. This is a Global Core course. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Patricia E. Grieve (peg1@columbia.edu), with the subject heading Application: E/W Frametale Narratives. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Applicants will be notified of decisions within a week.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia E Grieve
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO GERMAN LIT (GERMAN)

Prerequisites: GERM UN2102 or the equivalent. Examines short literary texts and various methodological approaches to interpreting such texts in order to establish a basic familiarity with the study of German literature and culture.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mark M Anderson
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: Intermediate Italian II ITAL UN2102 or the equivalent. UN3334x-UN3333y is the basic course in Italian literature. UN3333: This course, entirely taught in Italian, introduces you to Medieval and early modern Italian literature. It will give you the opportunity to test your ability as a close-reader and discover unusual and fascinating texts that tell us about the polycentric richness of the Italian peninsula. We will read poems, tales, letters, fiction and non-fiction, travel writings and political pamphlets. The great “Three Crowns” - Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio - as well as renowned Renaissance authors such as Ludovico Ariosto and Niccolò Machiavelli, will show us the main path to discover Italian masterpieces and understand the European Renaissance. But we will also explore China with Marco Polo and the secrets of the Medieval soul diving into the mystical poems by Jacopone da Todi. We will study parody and laughter through the “poesia giocosa” (parodic poetry) by Cecco Angiolieri and the legacy of Humanism through the letters of Poggio Bracciolini. This first overview will allow you to explore Italian literature from its complex and multicultural beginnings to its diffusion across Europe during the Renaissance.

• Department: Italian
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven J Baker
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED YIDDISH

Prerequisites: YIDD UN2101-YIDD UN2102 or the instructor's permission. Reading of contemporary authors. Stress on word usage and idiomatic expression, discussion.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

IMPROVISATION

Improvisation is an open level, movement based class in which students will learn collaborative improvisation tools, skills, practices, and mindset through experience, reflection, practice, and generation. Deep play, support for others, and a willingness to experiment and reflect are key in this discovery based course.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah R Silverblatt-Buser
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• 0-1 points

Marriage and Morals among the Victorians

Victorian Marriage and Mo

The second half of the 19th century saw a sharp debate in Britain over the terms and conditions of marriage and indeed of gender relations more generally.  This course will explore that debate, tracing its effects in law, politics, and personal life.  Topics include:  conflicts over legal and political rights (including suffrage); love, sex, and sociability; domestic violence, child custody, and the contest over male authority; the “problem” of prostitution; and utopian efforts to reimagine gender relations.  Students will read literary and polemical works by John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, Mona Caird, Bernard Shaw, Frances Power Cobbe, Cicely Hamilton and others, will evaluate historians’ arguments, and will develop their own research project.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Pedersen
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Poetry and Philosophy

Since Plato, poets and philosophers have been at odds as often as they have cross-pollinated. How should we think about the relation between these two discourses? In this seminar we will put the following dictum of Romantic poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the test:  “No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.” We will read philosophical poetry, poetic philosophy, and texts that don’t seem to quite fit in any genre. What makes certain poets particularly inspiring to philosophers, and vice versa? How does each group appropriate the tools of the other for their own purposes? We will be especially interested in the question of how poetic language offers a mode of thinking that may be philosophical in character, but is also fundamentally different from the conceptual and argumentative constraints of philosophy as it is usually conceived.

The first part of the class will be focused on the Romantic period, especially the two central philosophical Romantic poets: William Wordsworth and Friedrich Hölderlin. In the second part of the class, we will read several contemporary poets who are redefining the philosophical power of poetry in our time. Our focus will be on deep thinking, and slow, close reading.

In addition to two papers, you will choose between a presentation, a commentary, or writing a poem for a more creative assignment.

All readings will be provided in English, but having studied German will be useful.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph Albernaz
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

MODERN VI

This contemporary technique class invites students into an embodied practice focusing on a daily physical experimentation and challenge. Emphasis will be placed on corporeal ways to explore questions around propelling, listening, connecting, healing, and action. This course offers a chance for students to use their sensatorial experience to reflect on individual pathways/ desires for expression while, challenging the body to take risks and practice as their movement knowledge expands. Emphasis on sensation, initiation, and weight will be introduced in a floor or standing warm-up that will expand to a standing exploration of the transition between form and space. A focus will be to continue our development of a strong-grounded technique with healthy placement that moves with ease in and out of the floor. We will continue to develop our true embodied relationship to environment, people, and time.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Roderick George
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• 0-1 points

SHAKESPEARE I

(Lecture). This course will cover the histories, comedies, tragedies, and poetry of Shakespeare’s early career. We will examine the cultural and historical conditions that informed Shakespeare’s drama and poetry; in the case of drama, we will also consider the formal constraints and opportunities of the early modern English commercial theater. We will attend to Shakespeare’s biography while considering his work in relation to that of his contemporaries. Ultimately, we will aim to situate the production of Shakespeare’s early career within the highly collaborative, competitive, and experimental theatrical and literary cultures of late sixteenth-century England.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: James Stephen Shapiro
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• 3 points